We cannot be both the world's leading champion of peace and the world's leading supplier of the weapons of war.

Great American power and responsibility are not unprecedented, and have been used with restraint and great benefit in the past. We have not assumed that super strength guarantees super wisdom, and we have consistently reached out to the international community to ensure that our own power and influence are tempered by the best common judgment.

The United States is squandering international prestige and goodwill and intensifying global anti-American terrorism by unofficially condoning or abetting the Israeli confiscation and colonization of Palestinian territories.

America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense human rights invented America.

I can get up at 8am and be rested... or I can get up at 5am and be President.

Even for the world's only superpower, the ends don't always justify the means.

This view that women are somehow inferior to men is not restricted to one religion or belief. It is widespread. Women are prevented from playing a full and equal role in many faiths.